Rise of the Lost Empires on iPhone

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Need a traditional strategy fix for the iPhone?

By Levi Buchanan

Gameloft's Rise of the Lost Empires was simply one of the best strategy adventures for traditional mobile. Now, it is en route to the App Store -- and should be crashing the gates any day now. Rise of the Lost Empires is a two campaign strategy game, allowing players to rage across the lands as orcs or defend civilization as humans. In the original game, you could squeeze an easy 8-10 hours out of Rise as you pounded through about 20 missions.

Rise of the Lost Empires combines RPG elements with Warcraft-like strategy. Each campaign has a hero that leads the charge and can dish out tremendous damage to enemies, but much of the game is also spent doing resource management activities, like building up cities from shattered foundations. As you build up cities, you must erect buildings that generate food and unleash new units into the field. In the mobile game, there were approximately 40 different units and buildings you could create, including archers and demons.

Maybe orcs are just misunderstood?

New screens of Rise show the game has been expanded into widescreen and the already attractive visuals have been upgraded for the iPhone. Units are a touch larger on the iPhone.

Rise of the Lost Empires should appear very soon on the App Store. As soon as it does, keep your powder dry and wait for a full review on IGN Wireless.